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BusinessDay.gif Vavi denies fresh claims Natasha Marrian, Business Day, Johannesburg, 4 March 2015 The crisis in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) deepened on Tuesday with fresh allegations of procurement irregularities levied at general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. COSATU's three-day central executive committee meeting ends on Wednesday. The meeting is expected to receive a forensic report by auditors SizweNtsalubaGobodo, which was handed over to national leaders last month. The report alleges that Mr Vavi had not followed tender procedures in awarding a contract to a service provider. The federation held a financial committee meeting last week at which it forecast a R4m deficit for 2015. This was due to COSATU having been able to effect only a slight increase in affiliation fees, as well as not getting R1m a month in affiliation fees from the National Union of Metalworkers of SA, along with legal expenses and other costs. COSATU's total affiliate fees are expected to drop from R76m in 2014 to R69m this year. Its total spending is expected to be about R61m. Vavi.jpg The fresh claims, coupled with Mr Vavi's boycott of the meeting, have hardened attitudes against him and insiders said on Tuesday that he could well be suspended again or even dismissed. COSATU's constitution allows for the removal of office bearers by the committee if they have committed misconduct, neglected their duties or acted in a manner detrimental to the federation. It is understood that COSATU requested SizweNtsalubaGobodo to extend the scope of an earlier investigation to include whether there were any irregularities in the awarding of a contract to VMS Technologies for security and information technology systems. The earlier investigation was linked to a possible conflict of interest between Mr Vavi and VMS Technologies. The latest allegations include: failure to follow COSATU's tender policy, failing to conduct a comparative analysis of prices ahead of awarding the contract, and failing to engage with more than one supplier before finalising the contract. Mr Vavi has denied the claims. In a written response, he said documents showed four service providers were approached - Phambile (Xerox), Katlego (Canon), Gestetner, and VMS Technologies. He argued that COSATU did not have a tender policy as it had never adopted a draft presented at three central executive committee meetings. Mr Vavi also said procurement was governed by COSATU's financial policy, which required that three quotes be obtained prior to a decision. There were also allegations that the procurement of refrigerators was never submitted to a tender. But Mr Vavi argued that VMS Technologies was to provide the refrigerators at factory cost. From: http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/labour/2015/03/04/fresh-vavi-claims-and-COS ATU-cash-crisis -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
